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Your gaming PC or console should be a real focus of your overall sim racing setup. It is the part of your setup that contributes to how good sim racing titles look, and how well they perform.

Due to the current price of PC components finding deals for your gaming PC can result in really large savings. There is a wide range of retailers that often run discounts and sales on various PC components. You can also often find discounts on consoles such as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles throughout the year. And many PC brands offer complete pre-build gaming PCs that are ideal for sim racing.

What PC components affect sim racing

When you’re sim racing on a gaming PC, your entire build will have some impact on the performance. There are some PC components that will have a bigger impact than others on the overall performance.

In particular, both your CPU and GPU have the biggest impact on the graphical performance and FPS that you can achieve while sim racing. In particular, your graphics card will have the biggest impact on performance. Other components are also effective. You’ll need a good amount of RAM and it’s ideal to run sim racing titles from an NVMe SSD hard drive for the smoothest performance.

What PC do I need for sim racing?

A high-end gaming PC is the best ultimate setup for sim racing. However, you can sim race on a mid-range gaming PC without too much compromise. Having a gaming PC with a mid-level graphics card such as an RTX 2070 along with an i5 processor and 16GB of RAM will let you sim race with your game set to medium settings.

To race with your graphics settings set to ultra and with ray tracing enabled you’ll require a top-tier graphics card like the RTX 4090 paired with an i7 or i9 processor and 32GB of RAM. All of these gaming PC components often have deals and offers available thanks to a large number of retailers and resellers competing for customers.

Is a PC or console better for sim racing?

You can sim race on both PC and console and have an incredibly enjoyable time. Which platform you choose is down to your personal preference. Current consoles such as those from Xbox and PlayStation can support sim racing titles up to 60FPS with fantastic graphics that include Ray Tracing.

Sim racing on a PC does give you more control over how your sim racing title looks, and it also lets you run the games at a much higher frame rate as long as your PC supports it.

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